I am posting this in retrospect as I have gathered my hand written notes and collated them into a blog post to officially document my ideas.
The first thing I was thinking of before I even started to use the backward design model was how was I going to transform learning with ICTs? I always like to at least think of learning experience ideas to help me choose content descriptors which is the first step. I really wanted students to develop something using ICTs not just use them. I find it easy to think of ideas and tools to use but not connect or integrate them into a learning experience that is relevant.
My Somewhere:
Year 5 English class, lower to middle class SES state school, some indigenous and EAL/D enrolment, some learning difficulties but managed within classroom without EAP.
Desired Results (from the Australian Curriculum, ACARA, 2016):
Constructing Knowledge objectives
· Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality (ACELA1504)
· Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold (ACELA1505)
Transforming Knowledge objectives
· Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700)
· Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)
Acceptable Evidence:
I am still working on the wording for the marking rubric for these. But students should be able to apply their knowledge of text structures, format, purpose, language features, information etc into a procedural document on how to write an informative text. They will produce a multimodal text and present it to the class.
I love that other students like Summer have started to think about learning theories to help the development of their unit plans. I think it’s important to assess why you are doing things the way you are both before and during the planning. It makes the planning easier when you have a purpose.
I could probably say my main points that I would be focusing on for my justification involve:
- My choice of task for the age/developmental stage
- Importance of ICTs as a General Capability and in respect to the Melbourne Declaration (MCEETYA)
- How I used the R.A.T framework to assess my learning experiences
- Why I used Explicit Teaching techniques
- Why I used constructivist learning to guide ICT usage
- Why the assessment task successfully uses ICT to transform learning outcomes
I was trawling through Australian Curriculum Lessons looking for ideas for the content descriptors I had chosen but couldn’t find much there or anywhere else that excited me so I have decided to stick to my original ideas.
Jasmin
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